Ferrer, Gasquet win 2013 openers

Doha, Qatar (Sports Network) - Top seed David Ferrer and world No. 10 Richard
Gasquet were among Tuesday's opening-round winners at the season-opening Qatar
Open, a $1.05 million Australian Open tune-up.

The world No. 5 Ferrer got off to a slow start before righting the ship for a 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 victory over 6-foot-5 German qualifier Dustin Brown.

Up next for Ferrer, who led the ATP World Tour with seven titles last year,
will be another German in Tobias Kamke.

The second-seeded Gasquet defeated Czech qualifier Jan Hernych 6-3, 6-4 on the
hardcourts at the Khalifa International Tennis Complex. The nifty Frenchman's
second-round opponent will be Slovenia's Grega Zemlja.

Meanwhile, veteran Mikhail Youzhny became the fourth-ever Russian player to
record 400 ATP match wins with a 4-6, 7-6 (7-3), 6-1 decision against German
Benjamin Becker.

Last year's Doha runner-up and two-time finalist Gael Monfils moved on with a
6-0, 6-3 pasting of wild card Mousa Shanan Zayed of Qatar on Day 2. The oft-
injured Monfils gave way to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in last year's all-French
finale here.